Edward Goldsmith

Edward Goldsmith (died in August 2009) was the winner of the 1991 Right Livelihood Award.


 * Advisory Board, International Society for Ecology and Culture
 * Honorary Board Member, David Suzuki Foundation
 * Emeriti Director, International Forum on Globalization

His brother was Sir James Goldsmith.

Chronology (select)

 * 1968 	Was member of the committee that founded the Primitive Peoples' Fund, now called Survival International, and whose Chairman remains Robin Hanbury Tenison of Cardinham, Cornwall.
 * 1969 	Founded The Ecologist which I edited until 1987 and still publish today. The editorial office is now at Sturminster Newton in Dorset.
 * 1971 	Founded the Ecological Foundation and commissioned a Private Commission on Transport chaired by the Bishop of Kingston, subsequently the Biship of Birmingham. Served as environmental advisor to the Foundation.
 * 1973 - 1977 	Consultant to Atlanta 2000, a citizens group looking at the future of their city.
 * 1974 	One of the founders of "Cornwall Nuclear Alarm", set up to prevent the dumping of nuclear waste in Cornwall. In conjunction with Mebyon Kernow several hundred (perhaps more) of us went to London, congregated in Trafalgar Square and demonstrated against this hideous plan. Speakers included the Bishop of Birmingham, Robin Cook MP, Diana Rigg, the actress, and myself.
 * 1975 	One of the founders of ECOROPA, a European ecological club and think-tank, serving as vice-president and president of the French branch.
 * 1978 	One of the founders of the Green Alliance - a Parliamentary Lobbying Group on the environment (together with Gordon Rattray Taylor, Gerard Morgan Grenville and Maurice Ash of the Dartington Trust in Totnes.
 * 1991 	Formation of the Goldsmith Foundation by my brother, Sir James Goldsmith, with which I have been involved ever since. This took up nearly half my time for some years.

Criticism of Blueprint for Survival
These are reviewed by Timothy O'Riordan in his book Environmentalism (1976), see especially page 53.